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Resolution in Support of
AB 2194 (Washington): Air Pollution: Clean Fuels Technologies
WHEREAS, in 1988 the State Legislature authorized the adoption of a $1
surcharge on vehicle registrations within the South Coast Air Quality
Management District to fund a clean fuels program to find and nurture new
technologies to reduce air pollution; and
WHEREAS, since 1988, every dollar invested from this vehicle surcharge has
been matched by another $4 invested by private industry, universities and
other public agencies, effectively leveraging the program's $60 million
investment to obtain $250 million in public-private matching funds to finance
research and development projects valued at more than $310 million, and
WHEREAS, the existence of this program has resulted in a vibrant
public/private partnership engaged in developing new technologies to combat
air pollution, with 87 of these projects currently under way, and
WHEREAS, this program has been instrumental in the development and
deployment of low-and zero-emission technologies in critical transportation
applications, including but not limited to: advanced electric cars; the world's
`. first fuel cell buses; hybrid-electric delivery trucks; and locomotive engines
running on liquefied natural gas, and
WHEREAS, the local Southern California economy has benefited from tens of
millions of dollars in public/private investments in clean fuel technologies
since 1989, and
WHEREAS, 40% of the emission reductions needed in the South Coast District
to meet the federal clean air standard for ozone by 2010 rely upon advanced
technologies which do not exist today, and
WHEREAS, a variety of projects funded by this program have resulted in real
emission reductions through the introduction of zero-emitting vehicles powered
by fuel cells and clean fueled public transit buses, and
WHEREAS, the existing program has provided necessary research and
development resources to technologies that might not have become
commercially available without such investment, and
WHEREAS, the successful commercialization of technologies essential to
achieving acceptable air quality in the South Coast is dependent on the
continuation of the advanced technology program, and
WHEREAS, Assembly Bill 2194, authored by Assembly Member Carl
Washington, and introduced in the 1998 session of the California Legislature,
would continue the clean fuels program until 2010, assuring that it will be an
integral program to the regional efforts to achieve the federal air quality health
standard for ozone by 2010,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of San Jacinto, Riverside
County, supports AB 2194 by Assembly Member Washington, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this resolution and letter communicating
the City's support for AB 2194 be sent to Barry Wallerstein, Acting Executive
Officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 7th day of May, 1998, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Conner , Cornett , Good , Williams
and Nayor Smedley
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
Approved by:
Au .l,
` J mes L, Smedley, Mayor..
ATTEST:
Pamela L. Lee, City Clerk